An hour later, the three of them rode the Little E-Scooter to the outskirts.
The Agency did not have enough savings, and selling ore for money would take time, so the three of them had to borrow some on short notice before they could scrape together a hundred thousand in Talisman Currency.
At the edge of the suburbs stood a tall, unfinished building called Moon-Gazing Tower.
The area had originally been slated for development into the New Urban District, and the Municipal Bureau had planned a building here in advance. But before the roof was even finished, the official in charge of the project had been brought down.
A successor later came along and continued construction, but just as the building's shell was completed, that successor was brought down too.
The next official to take over came for an inspection and was likewise brought down.
The official who took over after that could not help pondering the matter. Had those people been brought down because of corruption? No, this project had to be unlucky. There was something seriously wrong with the feng shui here!
And so, with a stroke of his pen, he changed the direction of the New Urban District's development, leaving only this completed building out in the suburbs, with no plans to invest any more money in fixing it up.
Over time, it became an abandoned building that few people ever visited.
The Little E-Scooter had barely stopped outside when Yue Wen's phone rang. He answered and heard a muffled voice distorted with true qi. "You took your time..."
"Haven't you been watching us? You should know we didn't have that much in savings and went to borrow money, right?" Yue Wen said. "Is Big White all right? Let us speak to him."
A few barks came